§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 33 points between Workday Recruiting AI (ATS-integrated) and Mercor (Screening): 56 for Workday Recruiting AI, 23 for Mercor. Workday Recruiting AI leads every one of the 7 criteria and 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Mercor leads none. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Bias Audit Transparency (Mercor 10, Workday Recruiting AI 60) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Mercor 22, Workday Recruiting AI 70), the second being 30% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Mercor
Mercor is an AI talent platform that runs automated 20-minute AI video interviews and semantic resume/profile matching to vet, score, and place candidates and expert contractors, and offers an enterprise applicant-screening product that scores employers' applicant pools against role rubrics with pass/fail recommendations.
Vendor profile
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
§ The record
Mercor is filed under Screening AI, Workday Recruiting AI under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Mercor is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Mercor | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
9.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
9.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
5.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
2.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
2.3 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
2.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -32.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 32.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -33 beside that -32.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 70 | -48 | -9.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 60 | -50 | -9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 35 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 55 | -33 | -5.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 65 | -23 | -2.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 35 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 65 | -25 | -2.0 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 56 (F) | -33 | -32.4 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Mercor | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 27 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next